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Seismic Slope Stability

By using Makdisi and Seed (1978) simplified procedure, estimate seismically-induced embankment deformations due to an earthquake of moment magnitude Mw=7.5, which was predicted to produce a crest acceleration of 0.75 g at the below shown 40 m high homogeneous earthfill dam.

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Seismic Slope Stability

By using Makdisi and Seed (1978) simplified procedure, estimate seismically-induced embankment deformations due to an earthquake of moment magnitude Mw=7.5, which was predicted to produce a crest acceleration of 0.75 g at the below shown 40 m high homogeneous earthfill dam.

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CE 5601 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

2017 Fall

Prof. Dr. K. Önder Çetin


Department of Civil Engineering
Prepared by: Makbule Ilgaç

Solution #6:
Seismic Slope Stability

1. By using Makdisi and Seed (1978) simplified procedure, estimate seismically-induced


embankment deformations due to an earthquake of moment magnitude Mw=7.5, which was
predicted to produce a crest acceleration of 0.75 g at the below shown 40 m high homogeneous
earthfill dam.

33 m

40 m
o
15o
30

R=65 m Su=200 kPa


P h=40 y=30 m

Su=350 kPa
W=18000 kN/m

Not to scale
i. Reduced undrained shear strengths of embankment material is calculated as follows:
su ,1  0.8 * 200  160kPa
su , 2  0.8 * 350  280kPa
ii. Resisting and disturbing moments should be calculated for determination of F.S.

F .S . 
M res

M dis

 15 30 
M res  160 * (2 *  * 65 *
 360
)  280 * (2 *  * 65 * ) * 65  796394kNm / m
360 

M dis  18000 * 33  18000 * k * 40

Solution #6 : Seismic slope stability


CE 5601 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
2017 Fall

Prof. Dr. K. Önder Çetin


Department of Civil Engineering
Prepared by: Makbule Ilgaç

For FS=1.0, k  k y

In this case, k y  0.28

y 30 k
For   0.75 and amax=0.75 g, max  0.45 (from average of all data plot). So kmax=0.34
h 40 a max

ky
For  0.83 and Mw = 7.5, u ≈ 0.15 to 0.1 cm.
kmax

2. For the above case, now predict the crest accelerations yielding to embankment deformation of
2, 5 and 10 cm separately.

ky
i. For u = 2 cm,  0.6  0.8 So k max  0.35  0.47
k max

k max
Then, for  0.45 ; amax  0.78g  1.04 g
a max

ky
ii. For u = 5 cm,  0.46  0.70 So k max  0.40  0.61
k max

k max
Then, for  0.45 ; amax  0.89 g  1.35g
a max

ky
iii. For u = 10 cm,  0.38  0.62 So k max  0.45  0.74
k max

k max
Then, for  0.45 ; amax  1.00 g  1.64 g
a max

Solution #6 : Seismic slope stability


CE 5601 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
2017 Fall

Prof. Dr. K. Önder Çetin


Department of Civil Engineering
Prepared by: Makbule Ilgaç

3. If the acceleration time history estimated at point P given as “PointP.txt”


a. Estimate permanent rigid block displacements for seismic coefficients (k=ac/amax)
of 0.25, 0.33, 0.50 and 0.75 respectively by using Newmark (1965) procedure.
Hint: You may use the Slammer software (https://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/12b1/) to
estimate rigid block displacements.

Rigorous Analyses (Newmark


(1965)) Rigid Block Average (cm)

k=ac/amax→0.25=ac/amax→ac=0.25*0.43=0.1075 3.39

k=ac/amax→0.33=ac/amax→ac=0.33*0.43=0.1419 1.55

k=ac/amax→0.50=ac/amax→ac=0.50*0.43=0.215 0.37

k=ac/amax→0.75=ac/amax→ac=0.75*0.43=0.3225 0.033

Solution #6 : Seismic slope stability


CE 5601 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
2017 Fall

Prof. Dr. K. Önder Çetin


Department of Civil Engineering
Prepared by: Makbule Ilgaç

b. Estimate permanent rigid block displacements by using the semi-empirical methods


of Saygili and Rathje (2008), Jibson (2007) and Ambraseys and Menu (1988).
Directly estimate the deformations by using the proposed closed form solutions.
Then check your result with the estimations by Slammer software.
Saygili and Rathje Ambraseys and Menu
Jibson (2007)
(2008) (1988)
Slammer Calculated Slammer Calculated Slammer Calculated

k=0.25→ac=0.1075 21.8 21.85 6.1 6.14 17.4 17.38

k=0.33→ac=0.1419 11.3 11.25 3.2 3.16 9.7 9.66

k=0.50→ac=0.215 3.1 3.10 0.9 0.88 2.9 2.93

k=0.75→ac=0.3224 0.4 0.37 0.1 0.10 0.3 0.33

k 0.75 0.5 0.33 0.25 0.75 0.5 0.33 0.25 0.75 0.5 0.33 0.25 0.75 0.5 0.33 0.25
PGA Critical Acceleration Saygılı and Rathje (2008) Jibson (2007) (ac-amax) Ambreseys and Menu
(ac-amax) (1988)
0.43 0.32 0.22 0.14 0.11 0.37 3.10 11.25 21.85 0.10 0.88 3.16 6.14 0.33 2.93 9.66 17.38

Saygili and Rathje (2008)

ln Dn = 5.52 - 4.43 ( ac / amax ) - 20.39 ( ac / amax )2 + 42.61 ( ac / amax )3 - 28.74 ( ac / amax )4 +


0.72 ln amax

Jibson (2007)

log Dn = 0.215 + log [ ( 1 - ac / amax ) 2.341 ( ac / amax ) -1.438 ]

Ambraseys and Menu (1988)

log Dn = 0.90 + log[ (1 - ac / amax)2.53 (ac / amax)-1.09 ]

Solution #6 : Seismic slope stability

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